REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle
(Nasdaq: ORCL) today announced the lineup of gurus for Oracle(R) OpenWorld San
Francisco, Oracle's global business and technology conference, to be held
Dec. 5-9, 2004 at Moscone Center. Recognized as innovators and leaders among
industry peers, the Oracle Gurus will participate in innovative and highly
interactive discussions with conference attendees about the future of
technology in four key areas: business intelligence, collaboration,
integration and enterprise grid computing.
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020718/ORCLLOGO )
Now in its fourth year, the popular "Meet the Gurus" program offers Oracle
OpenWorld attendees the opportunity to interact directly with Oracle's top
visionaries in an informal setting. The Oracle Gurus represent a broad
spectrum of Oracle's applications and technology organizations and are
responsible for some of the industry's most significant technology
breakthroughs including grid computing and Service Oriented Architectures
(SOA). Some of the Oracle Gurus scheduled to participate in the conference
include:
-- Mary Ann Davidson, Security Guru -- As the company's chief security
officer Davidson has helped oversee development of the industry's most secure
database, application server and enterprise software products for customers.
-- Amlan Debnath, Integration Guru -- As vice president of Server
Technologies, Debnath oversees the development of the integration roadmap and
strategy for Oracle Application Server 10g.
-- Greg Doherty, Oracle Collaboration Suite Guru -- As vice president of
Oracle Collaboration Suite, Doherty is responsible for developing the
company's Collaboration Suite business, including suite product management and
architecture, global trade management, field and partner infrastructure and
key customer deployments.
-- Cliff Godwin, Application Technology Guru -- As the senior vice
president of Applications Technology, Godwin is responsible for ensuring that
Oracle Applications effectively leverage Oracle's systems technologies. He
focuses on applications architecture, standards, performance and installation
used throughout Oracle Applications.
-- Andrew Mendelsohn, Oracle Real Application Clusters and Grid Computing
Guru -- As senior vice president of Oracle's Server Technologies division,
Mendelsohn leads development and product management for the Oracle database.
Mendelsohn drives security, globalization and high availability technologies
across the Oracle Database, Application Server and Collaboration Suite
products. He led development of the Oracle Database 10g and is currently
leading the effort to develop future database releases.
-- Ray Roccaforte, Business Intelligence Guru -- As vice president of
Server Development for Oracle Business Intelligence, Roccaforte's team
delivered the first truly integrated OLAP, data mining and ETL engines. His
team is tasked with helping customers achieve real-time business intelligence
with embedding sophisticated analytic capabilities into the database.
-- Richard Sarwal, Manageability and Performance Guru -- As the vice
president of Server Performance, Sarwal focuses on managing information
technology (IT) systems more effectively by optimizing performance,
scalability, and availability at a significantly lower cost than ever before.
For several years, his team has been involved in creating the infrastructure
and tools to support a vision of proactive, automatic management of the
database, a key element in Oracle's grid computing vision.
Each Oracle Guru is scheduled to present a general conference session at
Oracle OpenWorld and will also be available throughout the conference for chat
sessions in the OTN Guru Lounge, located in the Oracle DEMOgrounds on the
Exhibit Hall floor. More information about Oracle Gurus is available at:
http://www.oracle.com/openworld/sanfrancisco/conference/otn_guru_lounge.html .
About Oracle
Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more
information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.
Trademark
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

SOURCE Oracle Corporation

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle
(Nasdaq: ORCL) today announced the lineup of gurus for Oracle(R) OpenWorld San
Francisco, Oracle's global business and technology conference, to be held
Dec. 5-9, 2004 at Moscone Center. Recognized as innovators and leaders among
industry peers, the Oracle Gurus will participate in innovative and highly
interactive discussions with conference attendees about the future of
technology in four key areas: business intelligence, collaboration,
integration and enterprise grid computing.
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020718/ORCLLOGO )
Now in its fourth year, the popular "Meet the Gurus" program offers Oracle
OpenWorld attendees the opportunity to interact directly with Oracle's top
visionaries in an informal setting. The Oracle Gurus represent a broad
spectrum of Oracle's applications and technology organizations and are
responsible for some of the industry's most significant technology
breakthroughs including grid computing and Service Oriented Architectures
(SOA). Some of the Oracle Gurus scheduled to participate in the conference
include:
-- Mary Ann Davidson, Security Guru -- As the company's chief security
officer Davidson has helped oversee development of the industry's most secure
database, application server and enterprise software products for customers.
-- Amlan Debnath, Integration Guru -- As vice president of Server
Technologies, Debnath oversees the development of the integration roadmap and
strategy for Oracle Application Server 10g.
-- Greg Doherty, Oracle Collaboration Suite Guru -- As vice president of
Oracle Collaboration Suite, Doherty is responsible for developing the
company's Collaboration Suite business, including suite product management and
architecture, global trade management, field and partner infrastructure and
key customer deployments.
-- Cliff Godwin, Application Technology Guru -- As the senior vice
president of Applications Technology, Godwin is responsible for ensuring that
Oracle Applications effectively leverage Oracle's systems technologies. He
focuses on applications architecture, standards, performance and installation
used throughout Oracle Applications.
-- Andrew Mendelsohn, Oracle Real Application Clusters and Grid Computing
Guru -- As senior vice president of Oracle's Server Technologies division,
Mendelsohn leads development and product management for the Oracle database.
Mendelsohn drives security, globalization and high availability technologies
across the Oracle Database, Application Server and Collaboration Suite
products. He led development of the Oracle Database 10g and is currently
leading the effort to develop future database releases.
-- Ray Roccaforte, Business Intelligence Guru -- As vice president of
Server Development for Oracle Business Intelligence, Roccaforte's team
delivered the first truly integrated OLAP, data mining and ETL engines. His
team is tasked with helping customers achieve real-time business intelligence
with embedding sophisticated analytic capabilities into the database.
-- Richard Sarwal, Manageability and Performance Guru -- As the vice
president of Server Performance, Sarwal focuses on managing information
technology (IT) systems more effectively by optimizing performance,
scalability, and availability at a significantly lower cost than ever before.
For several years, his team has been involved in creating the infrastructure
and tools to support a vision of proactive, automatic management of the
database, a key element in Oracle's grid computing vision.
Each Oracle Guru is scheduled to present a general conference session at
Oracle OpenWorld and will also be available throughout the conference for chat
sessions in the OTN Guru Lounge, located in the Oracle DEMOgrounds on the
Exhibit Hall floor. More information about Oracle Gurus is available at:
http://www.oracle.com/openworld/sanfrancisco/conference/otn_guru_lounge.html .
About Oracle
Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more
information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.
Trademark
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
SOURCE Oracle Corporation